Happy Thanksgiving!
It's been a quiet and mostly mellow day around the house today. I thought I might get some writing done today because it's a holiday, but I ended up sleeping in pretty late and didn't really get mentally moving until after lunch. Oh well.
Thanksgiving dinner was delicious as usual - with the turkey done on the Weber (if you need instructions on how to do the best turkey in the universe, leave me a comment....), mom's pan gravy (always a treat), my mashed potatoes (healthy and delicious - who knew it could happen???), butternut squash (one of my favorites), green beans (also good), citrus salad (yummy, although I wish there had been oranges in it as well instead of just grapefruit), cranberries (it isn't turkey without cranberries), Martinelli's sparkling cider (it isn't a holiday without Martinelli's), Kendall Jackson Chardonnay (I'm sure it was wonderful, but I didn't have any because I'm volunteering tonight and wine makes me super sleepy), apple pie (very good, although apple pie isn't my favorite), and cherry pie (my favorite pie ever, although the sauce could have been a little thicker...).
It was very strange to have only the four of us at Thanksgiving dinner (myself, mom, dad, and grandma) but this has kind of been the year of strange holidays for me. Last Christmas was the first one I ever spent without family of any kind - my ex had moved out about two months before, so going to his family's' was out of the question, and I was getting ready to move from Texas back to California, so I couldn't afford a plane ticket back to see my family, and they had commitments out in CA that were binding so they couldn't come out to spend it with me either. It ended up being OK - I had Christmas dinner at a nursing home with a friend of mine and a client of hers (a senior citizen that she does elder care for) and his family. I found it to be a very strange circumstance, but the day was pleasant overall.
There's a lot that I'm thankful for this year. I wish that I had a brain to computer hookup because I had a whole huge long list that I was composing in my head as I lay in bed waiting to go to sleep last night. I'm sure if I sat down and really focused on it, I would probably remember most of them. Suffice it to say that despite this being the year of divorce, bankruptcy, cross-country moves and a doggie illness that has required a HUGE financial commitment (doggie MRI's aren't cheap) I am finally starting to feel like a human being again, doing things that are fulfilling, developing my own friends and interests, etc. I know I still have a lot of growing to do before I'm where I want to be for the next phase of my life, but for the first time in a long time, I feel hopeful that I will be able to actually get there and in less than a million years from now.
Dear readers, I wish each and every one of you a wonderful Thanksgiving weekend, and I am thankful that you have taken some time out of your life to spend with me and mine.
Thanksgiving dinner was delicious as usual - with the turkey done on the Weber (if you need instructions on how to do the best turkey in the universe, leave me a comment....), mom's pan gravy (always a treat), my mashed potatoes (healthy and delicious - who knew it could happen???), butternut squash (one of my favorites), green beans (also good), citrus salad (yummy, although I wish there had been oranges in it as well instead of just grapefruit), cranberries (it isn't turkey without cranberries), Martinelli's sparkling cider (it isn't a holiday without Martinelli's), Kendall Jackson Chardonnay (I'm sure it was wonderful, but I didn't have any because I'm volunteering tonight and wine makes me super sleepy), apple pie (very good, although apple pie isn't my favorite), and cherry pie (my favorite pie ever, although the sauce could have been a little thicker...).
It was very strange to have only the four of us at Thanksgiving dinner (myself, mom, dad, and grandma) but this has kind of been the year of strange holidays for me. Last Christmas was the first one I ever spent without family of any kind - my ex had moved out about two months before, so going to his family's' was out of the question, and I was getting ready to move from Texas back to California, so I couldn't afford a plane ticket back to see my family, and they had commitments out in CA that were binding so they couldn't come out to spend it with me either. It ended up being OK - I had Christmas dinner at a nursing home with a friend of mine and a client of hers (a senior citizen that she does elder care for) and his family. I found it to be a very strange circumstance, but the day was pleasant overall.
There's a lot that I'm thankful for this year. I wish that I had a brain to computer hookup because I had a whole huge long list that I was composing in my head as I lay in bed waiting to go to sleep last night. I'm sure if I sat down and really focused on it, I would probably remember most of them. Suffice it to say that despite this being the year of divorce, bankruptcy, cross-country moves and a doggie illness that has required a HUGE financial commitment (doggie MRI's aren't cheap) I am finally starting to feel like a human being again, doing things that are fulfilling, developing my own friends and interests, etc. I know I still have a lot of growing to do before I'm where I want to be for the next phase of my life, but for the first time in a long time, I feel hopeful that I will be able to actually get there and in less than a million years from now.
Dear readers, I wish each and every one of you a wonderful Thanksgiving weekend, and I am thankful that you have taken some time out of your life to spend with me and mine.
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